National Geographic History - USA (2022-03 & 2022-04)

The Ides of March DEATH COMES TO CAESAR JOSEP MARIA CASALS Julius Caesar had become the most powerful man in the Roman Republic. ...

“At almost the same instant both cried out,” writes Plutarch, the Greek biographer and his- torian, describing how Caesar and Ca ...

PORTRAIT OF THE FALLEN This likeness of Julius Caesar was fashioned after his death on the Ides of March, 44 b.c. Vatican Museum ...

simultaneously attacked a single person given the logistics and the venue’s dimensions—a space that led to friendly-fire casualt ...

one of the world’s first recorded autopsies) and found that one wound alone had been fatal: “the second one in the breast”—a blo ...

at the pastoral Lupercalia festival by his cousin and close ally Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony), his behavior seemed to corrobora ...

FINAL JOURNEY Caesar’s residence was on the Via Sacra— the main artery through Rome, which also passed through the Forum. Caesar ...

ORONOZ/ALBUM When the plotters learned that Mark Antony would not participate in the assassination of Caesar, they agitated to k ...

and a very well-informed one—the Senate meeting had actually been called to finalize a de- cision as to who would replace Caesar ...

and from which he was at that time suffering.” (The long-held theory is that Caesar had epilep- sy. It is also possible he suffe ...

POISED TO STRIKE Publius Servilius Casca raises his dagger as Tillius Cimber distracts Julius Caesar by grabbing his toga. Oil p ...

Roman slaves, with the date shown as the Ides of March. It was a celebration of liberty, according to historian Mary Beard, that ...

for empire. Much of the public turned against the assassins, and civil wars ensued. Popular sentiment swung back toward Caesar. ...

HEAVENLY TOWERS The Angkor Wat temple was erected in the 12th century by Khmer king Suryavarman II to replicate Hinduism’s holy ...

VERONICA WALKER The capital of Cambodia’s Khmer Empire was both a sacred and cosmopolitan city, welcoming religious pilgrims and ...

34 MARCH/APRIL 2022 A ppearing like a fever dream amid a thick, humid jungle is Angkor Wat—a soaring, sumptuous city of stone wi ...

1181 King Jayavarman VII is crowned after he expels Cham forces from Cambodia. The empire will reach the peak of its splendor un ...

36 MARCH/APRIL 2022 Power of the Khmer The Khmer flourished from the ninth to the 15th centuries, its rulers presiding over a sp ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 37 PATERNITY AND POSTERITY The Preah Khan temple, whose name means “holy sword,” was erected in 1191 ...

38 MARCH/APRIL 2022 Historians have put forward various theories to explain the move. An important factor was likely the militar ...